Annotation:Miss Scott of Ancrum’s Reel

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MISS SCOTT OF ANCRUM'S REEL. Scottish, Reel. C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The title would seem to refer to one of the four daughters of Sir John Scott (1757-1812), 5th Baronet of Ancrum, and his wife Harriet Graham. The couple married in 1792 and had six children, four of whom were girls: Margaret (b. 1793), Harriet (b. 1794), Elizabeth (b. 1796), and Lucy (b. 1800).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Pringle (A Second Collection of Strathspeys, Reels & Jiggs &c.), c. 1805

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